RRF web page states "The University of Washington owns any patents, trademarks, copyrights or other work with commercial value from discoveries and inventions resulting from work funded by the Royalty Research Fund and these will be administered in accordance with the University's Patent, Invention, and Copyright policy. All such work shall be disclosed promptly to the University's Office of Technology Transfer."
Would UW allow the code to be GPL licensed? On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:20 AM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Probably obvious that I would be in favor of this getting funded :) > I'm cc:ing this to sage-edu as well, along with the original post. > Link to proposal is > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/attach/1f195a7c190bab0e/research.pdf?part=2 > > As for comments, probably too late but here goes: After a lot of > discussion with people regarding the issue of education funding, I > think that you can even intensify the argument about educational > funding. It seems that funding something that duplicates currently > available programs (e.g. the Ms but also various os solutions) is not > so hot, while seeking funding to develop course materials/books/ > resources/whatever using a full, robust system as it would undoubtedly > be after TWELVE weeks, yikes, of intense work on the nb and symbolics > would have a much stronger chance. And not just from NSF, by the way; > there are lots of other weird non-governmental foundations out there > which like ed stuff and are much more likely to fund improving courses > that already exist (such as by making Sage more responsive that > course) than to fund start-up stuff. I've been mystified at times > where we get money from to do various curricular things, but those > grants exist and we get them - and we're not one of the big boys, > either, so it's not like people are just asking to throw money at us. > > - kcrisman > > ++++ > > Hi, > I just wrote a small Sage grant proposal to this program: > http://www.washington.edu/research/main.php?page=rrf > Since it's a Sage proposal it may be of interest to people on > sage-devel. They have very specific requirements so if you read it > and think it's a bizarre proposal, please keep this in mind. > And please tell me about any typos you find, since I have to submit > this tomorrow (in about 10 hours). > -- William > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
